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Is Steve Jobs' health Apple investors' business?
The towering role of Steve Jobs at Apple was underscored this week when concerns about his health contributed to a sudden plunge in the company's stock.
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Profits fall 18 percent at Yahoo, but that’s better than expected
Yahoo Inc.’s second-quarter profit fell 18 percent, the latest sign of the financial decay that has frustrated shareholders and raised doubts about the Internet company’s future.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Jockey Club completes program to build horse-injury database
The Jockey Club announced yesterday the completion of a computer program for a national database of racing injuries.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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YANG SIDESTEPS POOR EARNINGS, AD WOES
Jerry Yang dodged another bullet yesterday as Yahoo! reported mediocre second-quarter earnings despite distractions from the merger dance with Microsoft and a weakening advertising market. Analysts and investors were closely watching Yahoo!'s...
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Ex-AOL chief would bring Net expertise to Yahoo board
Former AOL chief Jonathan Miller could shake up Yahoo if, as widely expected, he joins the board of directors under the terms of a truce between the Sunnyvale Internet company and its most rambunctious investor, Carl Icahn.
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Tilana™ Begins Beta Testing Tilana RealCDP™ on Linux
Client-server system now enables Linux servers as in-house data centers to provide cloud based sync, backup, and archive for multiple PC end user accounts. (PRWeb Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1136924.htm
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Independent developers will get a shot at selling their games on Xbox Live
Microsoft Corp. will let independent developers sell video games for the Xbox 360 console – and keep most of the profits – beginning this holiday season, the company said Tuesday.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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With DNS flaw now public, attack code imminent
One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon.
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Mozilla to release first Firefox 3.1 preview Friday
Mozilla Tuesday set Friday as the ship date for the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1, the fast-track update it hopes to polish off by late this year or early in 2009.
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Bruno assumes CEO role at consultant
CMA Consulting won 199 state contracts, including top job worth $12.85M COLONIE -- Joseph L. Bruno took over Tuesday as chief executive officer of CMA Consulting, a 410-employee computer programming and services company planning growth in the Capital Region and beyond. The firm's longtime CEO promoted herself to president and chairman. That allows CMA, which has numerous contracts with New ...
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Morning business news - July 23
McCANN HOTEL GROUP EYES UK FOR MAJOR EXPANSION - Former chief executive of Jurys Doyle, Pat McCann, last August completed a €46m deal, along with wealth investors through Davy and listed investment holdings company TVC, to acquire the long term lease on the Quality and Comfort Hotels here.
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Kaiser Unlocking Medical Records
Just as conducting business from shopping to banking has become standard practice online then so, too, could managing health care records become another cyberspace convenience.
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Nigeria: For Global Infoswift, its Operation Salvage Banks from Enterprise Security Risk
AS the world cyber security grows riskier and Nigeria rising to the third of the 10 cybercrime countries in the world, there are serious reasons to show concern and become conscious of the nature and dynamics of these fraudulent attacks .
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Shuttleworth Foundation pulls plug on Kusasa project
The educational software project Kusasa has been prematurely cancelled, with all parties involved offering cautious explanations.
Independent Online |
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SEATTLE: ‘Spam king’ gets nearly four years for e-mail fraud, tax evasion
A Seattle man once known as the “spam king” was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 11 months in prison for mail fraud, e-mail fraud and tax evasion.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Mixed results give Yahoo little new leverage
Yahoo's net income dropped by nearly 19 percent in the second quarter, while revenue grew at a sluggish 6 percent, doing little to improve the company's negotiating position with Microsoft.
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Beware False Spyware Alerts, Symantec Says ePaynews.com
Jul 23 2008 : Web security firm Symantec is warning of a new type of online scam. It says Internet users need to beware of rogue anti-spyware messages that pop up when they are online.
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nation/world news in brief
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court yesterday agreed with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
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Internet television service Joost enters China
Internet television service provider Joost said it launched a Chinese service.
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Ex-cop in alleged child sex plot
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has indicted a former Ottawa cop after the man allegedly tried to lure a minor over the Internet.
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The Hacker gets the job done at Laguna
“I'm thrilled!” : Kawasaki's substitute MotoGP rider, Jamie Hacking, brought his borrowed Ninja ZX-RR home in an impressive eleventh place on his premier class debut at Laguna Seca this weekend.
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Kids online? Contact with strangers is not unusual
One in five of the nation's wired "tweens" -- kids ages 8 to 12 -- has posted personal information on the Internet, and more than a fourth have been contacted online by strangers, a poll released Tuesday found.
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United States: Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms That Enterprise-Wide Software Is Exempt As “Custom” Computer Program
In a 4-3 decision released July 11, 2008, the Wisconsin Supreme Court (Supreme Court) upheld the ruling of the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission (Commission) that Menasha Corporation's license of SAP's R/3 System, an enterprise-wide software system used to integrate various segments of its business, was a license of a "custom" computer program exempt from Wisconsin sales and use tax under Section ...
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Yahoo! claims 'strong' Q2
Yang optimistic for future
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